skiftiTools: An R package for visualizing and manipulating skeletonized brain diffusion tensor imaging data for versatile statistics of choice
Harri Merisaari, Aylin Rosberg, Hasse Karlsson, Linnea Karlsson, Jakob Seidlitz, Richard Betlehem, Jetro Tuulari · FENS Forum 2024
A growing number of neuroimaging tools are being developed to enable data analysis in a more tool-independent manner when analyzing three- and four-dimensional brain imaging data in various statistical settings. Ideally, such tools still offer user interfaces that are accessible to those with a basic understanding of programming and statistics. Examples for traditional methods for doing statistical computations in voxel-space for brain diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in brain image processing are Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) and Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). Although these